SEOUL: North Korea's ruling party will hold a high-level meeting in June to review its economic policies, state media said on Monday (May 29). The nuclear-armed country has a fragile economy and its government has long been criticised for prioritising the military and its banned nuclear weapons programmes
SEOUL: North Korea's ruling party will hold a high-level meeting in June to review its economic policies, state media said on Monday .
The upcoming meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea will assess how national economic plans were carried out in the first half of 2023, the official Korean Central News Agency said. North Korea imposed a rigid blockade in early 2020 to keep out the coronavirus, and only resumed some trade with China last year.to specifically address food shortages and agricultural problems.
North Korea has periodically suffered famines, one of which killed hundreds of thousands of people in the 1990s. Some estimates of the deaths from that famine stretch into the millions.
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